Psychiatric Evaluation Prior to Epilepsy Surgery
EPILEPSI, cilt.18, ss.30-32, 2012 (ESCI, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 18
- Basım Tarihi: 2012
- Doi Numarası: 10.5505/epilepsi.2012.78941
- Dergi Adı: EPILEPSI
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.30-32
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Epilepsy surgery, psychiatric evaluation, temporal lobe epilepsy
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Epilepsy patients who are resistant to medical treatment carry the increased risk of psychiatric comorbidity. There is a bidirectional relationship between epilepsy surgery and psychiatric status. Surgery affects the prognosis of presurgical psychiatric symptoms and psychiatric status affects the postoperative prognosis of epileptic convulsions. Therefore a psychiatrist with experience on patients with epilepsy should be a part of every epilepsy surgery team, to evaluate patients carefully prior to surgery and to follow them accordingly after the operation.